Worked buttons on the heads



UNITEI) STATES PATENT `ROBERCL s. BROWN, 0F PEILADELPnrA, rEivNsxnvANIa,

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Specicaton of Letters Patent No. 2,462, dated February 21, 1842.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT S. BROWN, of the city of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Manner of Making or Forming what are denominated Worked Buttons on the Heads and Handles of Whips; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof.

The following is the manner of making worked buttons which has heretofore been pursued. What the workmen call a mold, is formed by winding.. thread around the whip where the button is to be, using glue, or pitch to cause the thread to adhere; in this way a proper foundation, of the desired shape and size, is made, and this is worked over by means of a needle carrying catgut, or cord, so as to cover the surface of the mold. The method which I have devised and adopted for forming such buttons facilitates the process to such an extent as enables me to make three or four dozen buttons while one could be made in the ordinary Iii making, or forming, the buttons by my improved process, I proceed in the following manner. I take the whip-makers plaiting machine, of any of the several kinds now in use. Some of these machines, as is well known to manufacturers, require to have a rim, or hoop, around them which must reach up to the height of the bobbins, to enable them to plait backward, while others do not require this appendage. In using these machines, I form what are called the thumb, and top, buttons upon a mandrel, or spindle, of wood, or of metal, of suitable size, such as is represented at A, Figure l, in the accompanying drawing.

For a foundation upon which to plait the button, I make a tube of paper by pasting one, two or more, thicknesses of that material around that part of the mandrel which is of the proper size. A part of one of these paper tubes is shown at B. This paper tube I cut square at each end, and to the length required for the button. Ithen place the mandrel in the machine and plait over the paper tube from one end of it to the other, and' out the ends of the thread, or catgut, off smoothly at the place of beginning; I next back over the rstplaiting far enough to cover the ends of the threads at the place of beginning, by which they are rendered secure. For some purposes, the plaiting will then be completed; but if the button is required to be thicker, in whole, or in part, I continue to plait backward and forward until it has assumed the desired size and shape. It is then to be taken off the mandrel, the thread or catgut cut olf to'a proper length, unraveled to a short distance, and tucked into the paper tube, taking care that they do not reach through it. I then pass the man` drel into the tube, roll the button, and size it. The ends will thus have a neat finish, and the paper will give to it the necessary stiffness, when it may be slid to its proper place on the whip.

C, represents a button before the ends of the threads are cut and placed into the tube. D, a button into the tube of which the ends of the threads have been passed, and the mandrel inserted to set it properly.

In Fig. 2, E, represents a head button on the handle part of the whip; this button, I plait on the whip itself. In forming it I first put on the leather cap F, and then place the whip in the machine; having done this, I proc-eed to plait up anddown, in the same manner as upon the mandrel, until I have given to it the proper size and form; a thing which will be well understood by every workman; the plaiting is to be nished at the end toward the leather cap, where the threads are to be out oif, and neatly tucked in under the button. I then roll and nish it in the usual way.

I sometimes plait the thumb button G, the handle part I-I, and the head button E, at one continuous operation. For this purpose, after placing the whip in the machine, I begin by plaiting the thumb button; and Vwhen this is finished, instead of cutting 0H the thread, or gut, I plait on over the handle, and then plait and nish the head button as before described. The entire novelty, and the special economy of the within-described process will be at once apparent to every one well acquainted with the art of whip making.

Having thus fully described the nature of my improvement in the mode of making, or forming, the worked buttons for whips; what I claim therein as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The manufacturing of them upon a mandrel, when they are to be slipped on to the whip, or upon a handle of the whip, in the sol part where such button is to constitute a process in the art of manufacturing such head, or knob, by using the common, whipbuttons, as herein described and made makers plaiting machine for that purpose, known.

in the manner herein set forth. ROBERT S. BROWN. y I do not claim anything new in the ma- Witnesses: chinery, or apparatus, that I employ, but GEORGE TABER,

' limit my claim to the new and improved MICHAEL MAGEE. 

